Analysis Of The Dark Holds No Terror

SOCIAL AND ETHICAL VALUES IN INDIA Social and ethical values in India are concerned with the norms of human social behaviour. "It is that study of human behaviour which propounds the supreme good of human life and which formulates the judgments’ of right and wrong and good and evil." It is also called moral philosophy. The word 'ethic,' itself is derived from the Greek 'ethos' meaning customs, usages or habits, or more comprehensively 'character'. The word 'right' has a Latin origin ('rectus') which means 'straight' or 'according to rule'. Ethics is thus specifically concerned with the principles or rules which make our conduct right or straight. The Latin word 'mores' from which is derived the English 'moral' is not much different from the Greek 'ethos' which means

She very well portrays modern, educated and career-oriented middle class women, who are sensitive to the changing time and situations. They are equally aware of the social and cultural inequalities to which they are subjected to, and hence they want to rebel against them in their search for freedom and identity, but ultimately they find themselves against the well-entrenched social inertia. In this novel The Dark Holds No Terrors, Sarita very boldly face up to the veracity and comprehends that, the dark now longs hold any terror to her. Sarita, usually known and recognized ‘Saru’ is an ordinary, simply, modest, sensitive, middle class women, is aware of her own limitation, but lacks self confidence. She wished and hoped and always longed to break away from the rigid traditional norms. She yearns for a new environment where, the mother cannot thrust her will on her daughter. Due to unhealthy experiences at her parental home, leads her to ascertain the unseen reserved potency in an individual, that at times leaps up to help the individual by shaping life into a pleasurable and a possible